Committee on Medieval Studies

Dimitris Krallis (Simon Fraser University), Between Byzantium and Modernity: Portraits of Civic Virtue in Late Ottoman Lesvos. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College...

Dilrabo Tosheva (Researcher, National Center of Archaeology, Uzbekistan), Reassessing Qarakhanid Funerary Architecture: Portals, Patronage, and Shaping Royal Identity in Pre-Mongol Central Asia. Co-sponsored with the Aga Khan Program for Islamic...

The Centennial meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, bringing together nearly 500 scholars from three continents, 23 countries, over 200 academic institutions, and a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds for 114 paper sessions, four plenary...

The Druker Design Gallery hosts an evening of music to mark the opening of Envisioning Cluny: Kenneth Conant and Representations of Medieval Architecture, 1872–2025, an exhibition celebrating the study of medieval architecture at Harvard University...

William P. Stoneman (Houghton Library emeritus), An Introduction to Provenance Research on Early Manuscripts and Books. Space in this workshop is limited; please click here to register. This workshop will introduce basic resources and principles of...

William P. Stoneman (Houghton Library emeritus), An Introduction to Provenance Research on Early Manuscripts and Books. Space in this workshop is limited; please click here to register. This workshop will introduce basic resources and principles of...

William P. Stoneman (Houghton Library emeritus), ‘For Purposes of Investigation or Instruction’: The History of Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Harvard. Co-sponsored with the Houghton Library. This lecture is free and open to the public...

A daylong symposium on queens in the medieval world and their modern legacies, featuring presentations by Bianca Arraiza Carlo '27, Franco Arraiza Carlo '26, Mandy Brenner '25, Vanessa Chen '28, Daisha Clayton '27, Donald Cruse '27, Gabrielle Greene '27...

Jacopo Bisagni (University of Galway), Pulling Threads of Ink: Computus and Networks of Knowledge between the Insular World, Brittany, and Francia in the Carolingian Age. Co-sponsored with the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities, the MHC Celtic...

(Unexpected) Sources for the Medieval Economy, a roundtable discussion led by Maryanne Kowaleski (Fordham University) featuring presentations by Jenny Adams (University of Massachusetts Amherst) on "Late Medieval Loan Chests and the Value of Academic...